Thompson 6-1 after rout of Saskatchewan

Mayflower’s Stuart Thompson continued to roll Wednesday at the Canadian junior curling championships in Fort McMurray, Alta.

Playing in his third consecutive national junior event, Thompson routed Saskatchewan’s Brady Scharback 9-4 on Wednesday afternoon to win his first championship round-robin game and improve to 6-1 overall.

Thompson and teammates Scott Babin, Luke Saunders and Alex MacNeil handled their Saskatchewan counterparts by scoring three times each in the third, fifth and eighth ends.

Myketyn-Driscoll and her rink of Taylor Clarke, Mackenzie Proctor and Sarah Sears were leading 2-1 until they gave up four in the fifth end. Hanson added five more in the eighth to finish things off.

Myketyn-Driscoll’s foursome is 3-4.

The Nova Scotia rinks advanced from the preliminary round to the championship round robin. The top three teams, based on combined records from the preliminary and championship round robin, advance to the playoffs on the weekend.

Thompson and Myketyn-Driscoll were both facing British Columbia skips in Wednesday’s late draw.

In the late draw Tuesday, Thompson scored two in the seventh end and then stole three in the eighth en route to a 9-2 drubbing of Daniel Murray of the Northwest Territories.

Myketyn-Driscoll gave up four in the sixth end to Manitoba’s Shannon Birchard and lost 11-2 to finish the preliminary round.